needle

ot noun

1. A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc. The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.
2. A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle. The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.
3. A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus. Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
4. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

fe’l verb

1. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at. Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
2. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle. to needle crystals
3. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.